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April 22, 2006 9:28am by David Farrar

The angry left

Michelle Malkin posts a collection of recent e-mails.

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tim barclay

The left are always angry becuase they are merely managers of the political-economy as defined by the right. But they are skillful political operators, they think of nothing else, and the shape of the Labour caucus suggests skills at political manipulation is more important that anything else.
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April 22, 2006 9:38am
stephen

Where’s the context, David? Ah yes: she posted the personal phone numbers of student protest organisers. They received death threats from HER readers. She wouldn’t remove them. Full story here:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/04/radio-rmalkin.html

Did you not know this, or are you just teasing?
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April 22, 2006 10:24am
Polemic

Skillful over analysis Tim…

Posting personal contact information in an inflamatory post like hers? That’s trolling pure and simple. She got what she was looking for – an inflamed response.

Really David, would you, possibly the most read blogger in NZ, post contact information for any of the people you blog about?
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April 22, 2006 10:27am
David Farrar

Contact information that comes from a press release is not private information.

Even if it was, it is outraegous for anyone to receeive comments like that. But good to see you people justify it.
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April 22, 2006 10:41am
burt

It all looks pretty simple to me. If people wouldn’t use logic and facts to argue with the lefties there would be no problem to start with.

Sheesh, talk about obvious !
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April 22, 2006 10:54am
Polemic

That was not a justification David; I remain surprised that you are suprised she recieved them.

And no one said ‘private’. No doubt your contact information is publicly available somewhere – that does not make it ok for any blogger with a bone to pick to publish your personal details in an inflamatory post with no method of recourse.
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April 22, 2006 11:18am
David Farrar

“She got what she was looking for – an inflamed response” and you claim that was not a justification. Looks and smells like one to me.

And she did not look their info up in the whitepages – she took it from the press release they put out boasting about what they did. Even Daily Kos people worked out this is okay.
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April 22, 2006 11:28am
JamesP

The English language really needs some new curse words. The lack of variety there was depressing.
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April 22, 2006 11:36am
Polemic

Once again David, are you surprised she recieved this reponse?

If we really want to hold up the stupidity of a few to represent the ideals of an entire chunk of a population then fine. It’s disingenuous, but this is the internet – I guess we all have to lower our standards sometimes.
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April 22, 2006 11:43am
Meds

Are we surprised at your response Polemic?
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April 22, 2006 12:27pm
David Farrar

Am I surprised. Yes. Am I disgusted. Yes. Sending someone an e-mail like those people did is deeply disturbing.
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April 22, 2006 12:35pm
ZenTiger

All very funny, given that I have read endless posts from left leaning people claiming that crazies are the province of the right.

These students published a press release with their personal contact details in it, and an invitation to contact them.

Not only Malkin, but apparently Indymedia, Infoshop News and Oread Daily featured the original SAW press release with the details. The students might learn something from that. I doubt some of the correspondants are going to use the same tone in their emails writing to those sites.

Polemic, there is a big difference between some-one hunting through the internet for David Farrar’s personal details to publish on a post, and posting a press release issued by David where he has deliberately included those details. At least keep the examples relevant.
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April 22, 2006 12:36pm
Danyl Mclauchlan

All very funny, given that I have read endless posts from left leaning people claiming that crazies are the province of the right.

By endless I suspect you mean zero. There are more crazy right-wingers in the blogosphere, probably because there are more right-wingers online. But anyone who’s spent any time surfing, say, Democratic Underground, or the darker corners of DailyKos is aware that there are also an impressive number of truly batshit left-wingers venting their spleen.

Of course, if you want really truly vile insane hatespeech the right still has the market cornered
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April 22, 2006 1:43pm
reid

“Malkin, …is like the lunatic who walks around the public square and pokes people in the eye with a sharp stick, and then is shocked, shocked, that anyone would respond with anger and outrage.”

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/04/radio-rmalkin.html
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April 22, 2006 2:00pm
err..

Sorry, but neither side of the political spectrum has any monopoly on fuckwits. As mentioned, the publication of said personal phone numbers resulted in THOSE people getting death threats. So there’s plenty of the angry right too.

Malkin gets the angry left because she’s a particularly aggressive righty troll. There are plenty of aggressive lefty trolls (like Michael Moore, for example) who I’m sure get similarly vitriolic hate mail from idiots.

I don’t see why this warrants anybody’s interest. You go trolling, you catch fish – it doesn’t really matter if they’re lefty fish OR righty fish.
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April 22, 2006 2:07pm
Ruth

Award winning Glenn Greenwald talks about caricature and generalisation here; http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/04/mistaking-caricature-and.html

Malkin is a disgrace to journalistic standards – just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Anyway there is too much hate speech from both sides – and massive rage against anyone who doesn’t share your opinions. Peter Cresswell says I have an embarrassing blog, and privately told me I should take a burqa b4 going out – all because I don’t think Muslims are the epitome of evil. Too many people feel that, just because you post on the internet they can make all kinds of very personal comments about you.

Too many people SUCK.
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April 22, 2006 2:09pm
AL

“There are more crazy right-wingers in the blogosphere, probably because there are more right-wingers online.”

What a curious statement to make, dim, considering your previous claims you only read “mainstream” sources of information. What, then, is your opinion based on? And did you visit the Daily Kos page, where anyone not toeing the Armando party line is flagged a troll?

And the LGF post you link to is about the infamous fake Indymedia “pancake breakfast” for Rachel Corrie, the leftwing activist immortalised for being accidentally run over by a very large armoured Israeli bulldozer while she was sitting in its path during a clearance operation in the “no mans land” between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. What is your deep meaning, I’m sorry, you’ll have to spell it out. Are you equating mirth at what they thought was an act of ironic lunacy (I think later proven a fake) by Indymedia types to the emails Michelle Malkin received?

And how ironic some lefties here are attacking Malkin for publishing an activist groups own PR, as if its intimidating. What is this activist group accused of? Slashing tires, injuring one person, and generally intimidating recruiters coming onto the campus. Just the sort of behaviour which should result in the publication of their identity, and now their embarrassment.

“…University officials had been aware for weeks that Students Against War planned a protest to prevent military personnel from participating in the school’s biannual job fair held for students…Universities that receive federal funds are required to allow military recruiters on campus. But campus officials had worried that Tuesday’s protest would get out of hand as it had last April, when Students Against War protesters surrounded the table where military personnel sat, and hundreds of other demonstrators engaged in an angry protest outside. Some of the recruiters reported that their tires had been slashed and one employee at the career center was injured.”

Malkin also links to a video of these little thugs in action.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004974.htm

I’ve been to UC Santa Cruz and it is an extremely liberal University town area, what you’d get if you put 10,000 Idiot/Savants in one fairly well-off place and gave them infinite amounts of money to wank on about whatever. But this sort of thuggishness seems very out of place – it’s campus is a very relaxed low-density hill area, surrounded by forests dotted with weird little pagan ritual leftovers (for real) and warning signs about mountain lions.
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April 22, 2006 2:40pm
Justin

“what you’d get if you put 10,000 Idiot/Savants in one fairly well-off place and gave them infinite amounts of money to wank on about whatever.”

If there is such a place, then there truly is no God.
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April 22, 2006 4:15pm
Murray

Ok I was going say that posting peoples details is pretty much red rag to a bull (Hi Llew) but I flipped over to read some of them and come on, thats a lot a rascist obscene threatening and plainly disturbing crap there.

None of that is an acceptable sort of response.

MM went looking for hateful loonies and struck gold.

Anyone could do the same approching it from the other side of the poltical sprectrum if they so chose.

I doubt those people represent the left (dare I say it) “mainstream” any more than skinheads kicking over Jewish headstones represent people with more conservative beliefs.

You tend to find what you looking for and she did.

Holding it up and saying look at all the liberals is bollocks David.
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April 22, 2006 5:06pm
themole

Regarding how this all started, Michelle Malkin went to a cached page, took a screenshot, and posted the image on her site because didn’t like the politics of the people. It’s not her place to justify the disclosing of this information because she deemed that they were terrorizing people. That’s an issue for the Santa Cruz police department to deal with, not her own brand of vigilante justice.
As for her own personal details – Malkin included that on her own e-mail list and that’s how it went public.
She launched her personal information about herself BY herself.
And the anti-racist One People’s Project website promptly released her new details.
Someone took it a step further and used live.windows.com and yahoo maps to do a Graphic.
Payback’s a bitch eh’ Malkin?
Her refusal to remove these kids contact information was not from conviction, but from revenue. Every journalist in the world knows that contact information on a press release is for journalists to call for more information or interviews, not to be published (or even pointed out) in the publication itself. If she were any kind of ethical person she would have pulled the information when asked.

If she were something resembling a human being with “feelings”, she would not have republished the information once the students themselves removed it. Michelle is a vicious, vindictive, venomous egoist with no discernible ethics nor even a shred of human decency. If she wants to be The Minority Woman Who Believes Minorities and Women Suck, that’s her right. But she should at least have the integrity to acknowledge that she has done wrong and to stop compounding the wrong. And she should not give us that disingenuous crap about how she doesn’t condone death threats and nobody should misuse her posting and reposting of personal information.
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April 22, 2006 7:34pm
woppo

Why shoot, those goshdarn white-kneed, syphilated, piss-begotten, grandmother-humping lefties (yawn) . . .
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April 22, 2006 8:13pm
Craig Ranapia

themole:

One might think that anyone “resembling a human being with ‘feelings’ wouldn’t actually sink to the same old racist, misogynistic bullshit Malkin regularly attracts. ‘Fess up, if Malkin was a left-wing blogger (and one who I find rather OTT and disagree with on many issues) you’d be going batshit and ranting about what a pack of psychos the right are – and I’d be inclined to agree with you.

But you don’t like her politics and her POV, so you’ve made it clear that obscene, racist and misogynistic hate mail is OK. Well, that’s your opinion and the strongest language I’ll use to disagree with you is ‘hypocrite’.
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April 22, 2006 10:37pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

bang on the money Craig.

This thread is typically all too believable from our so called tolerant left leaning friends these days. Lets reflect on the actual facts:

students publish a press statement claiming responsibility and gloating over their illegal actions.

(and yes they were illegal, and yes there does appear to be intimidation and criminal damage going on)

They include contact details.

The press statement, in total, is sent to (BY THE STUDENTS) and published by a variety of left wing US sites – and is still on line at them.

MM (who is a shit stirrer) finds it and publishes it on her site.

cue incredibly racist and misyogenist attacks on her.

cue justification from our lefty friends, oh you see she is a nasty right winger therefore it is entirely justified to say these things about her.

Well, is it really ok?

nice, particularly from Danyl/dim and .err who consistently claim a higher standard of personal virtue on most topics. Very classy guys.
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April 22, 2006 11:04pm
Craig Ranapia

And for the record, I think it’s a matter of basic ethics to post comments on blogs using my real name. Any lefty-blogger who feels so inclined can find my home address on the North Shore electoral roll. I don’t have the ability or the right to decide who has access to public information.

And, also, on occasion I’ve drawn some criticism on various blogs that have resulted in truly vile hate mail – including one particularly charming missive wishing that my partner die slowly and painfully of AIDS. I actually hold the authors responsible, not Russell Brown or Jordan Carter or anyone else.
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April 22, 2006 11:16pm
Russell Brown

Yuck. Nasty emails. Malkin is a racist troll, but this sort of trash is unacceptable.

But I’d have to say these guys are amateurs compared to the fun-loving sorts at LGF. Those guys really know what blog comments are for: a vehicle for violent rape fantasies:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9624
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/04/why_do_wingnuts.html
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/13/late-nite-fdl-fear-and-loathing-in-the-nuttersphere/

Cheers,
RB
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April 23, 2006 11:44am
Russell Brown

But seriously, I’ve had a swag of hate-mail over the years, some of it (during the GE wars) from lefties.

On rare occasions it’s been worrying, but in the vast majority of cases it’s just *sad*. The work of dark, bitter little people who can’t form an argument (or sometimes even a sentence). When you lower the barriers to communication there will be the odd unfortunate consequence.

Cheers,
RB
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April 23, 2006 11:52am
exocet

You do know the difference btw a blog owner and the commenters on a blog don’t you Russell?. They are not the same people

Oh sorry, you don’t, Public Address dosn’t allow comments doest it?
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April 23, 2006 12:15pm
mark

To the people who think that this points out the left are freaks, aren’t there lunatic fringes on both sides that the ‘core’ of each side is ashamed of?

I think the real issue is that theselunatic fringes shold be marginalised, not built up.

Malkin is either a lunatic freak herself (although some of her less inflamatory writing seems reasonable) or she’s actively fanning the flames.

Anyway, there are lots of critiques on the web of Malkin’s journalistic integrity, and people should be able to read them and make their own mind up.

I wonder if this would be a big story if someone on the left published their hatemail? Oh, that’s right. Noone takes right wing lunatics seriously anyway.

Why is it an issue this time? Is it because people didn’t think there were left wing lunatics before?
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April 23, 2006 1:27pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

no mark, its because right wing lunatics are SUPPOSED to be racist and misogynist, remember?

It is our left wing friends who are caring and sensitive, multicultural and tolerant of others.

Sorry, thats why this is a story and its why the story has legs.

Interesting that Russell also jumps on the “if the other side do it it must be alright” argument too. Again, very classy.

Does threatening to sew up the genitals of an asian woman with barbed wire really represent acceptable language? Is it really commensurate with the supposed “crime” that Ms Malkin committed – you know linking to an existing piece of information posted on the web?

Is it really OK to deliberately and demeaningly objectify any woman?

and is it specifically Ok to do it if you claim to espouse liberal and allegedly pro-woman and pro-human rights policy. You know:

“we’re really for the people man, except for those slanty eyed asian right wing c**ts”

yup all class all the way.
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April 23, 2006 4:41pm
mark

nigel, I think that there can be lots of different strains of right wing lunatics :~)

I don’t think that anyone reasonable condones the bethaviour of the people that sent the hate-mail to Malkin. But Malkin *is* tacitly condoning the death threats that the activists got by continuing to post their poersonal information after they requested it be taken down.

I also think that there are two different classes of action here.

The first is the direct action taken by people. what the activists did wrong, the hate mail senders, the people making death threats. Those people are personally responsible for their actions.

The second is when a public figure incites others to action. I’m really trying to see both sides of the fence here, but the provocative talkback radio type of stuff, which winds people up who then go out and do unacceptable things. Littlegreenfootballs has been referenced a few times in this thread and for good reason. That sort of ‘fire and forget’ scud missile, I think that the people who are responsible for priming that sort of hate need to be responsible for the cause of their actions.
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April 23, 2006 6:57pm
ross

DPF: “Am I surprised. Yes. Am I disgusted. Yes. Sending someone an e-mail like those people did is deeply disturbing”.

I am sure Michelle is receiving therapy for the terrible trauma she has suffered.
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April 24, 2006 11:47am
Kimble

“I am sure Michelle is receiving therapy for the terrible trauma she has suffered.”

They have posted detailed information about her family, ie. address, kids name and schools attended, phone numbers etc. Given the lunacy of the hard left in the US, I think she is in more need of armed protection than therapy.

And mark, they have not requested it be taken down. Malkin had an update at the end of the post saying that neither the people named, nor any representative has contacted her to request the informtion be removed. She has repeatedly offered to remove the information of anyone that requests it done.

It is interesting to see the double standard at work here. Lefties release information that is both private and sensitive and they are noble whistleblowers. Righties repeat information that is for all intents and purposes PUBLIC and they are the devil incarnate.
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April 24, 2006 1:51pm
Andrew Bannister

I am not sure you can call these people “the angry left”. The responses MM got are from a bunch of hateful racist lunatics. They are neither left nor right. A lunatic is a lunatic. When people call other people the stuff that they called MM, it just shows that thinking and reason wasn
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April 24, 2006 2:11pm
Kimble

Yeah Andrew, they probably are anti-war, anti-capitalist, pro-choice, anti-christian, socialist, gaia-loving global warming alarmists, but because they are ALSO racist and vile means they obviously arent Left.

Riiiight.

More likely they are as Left as you can get and only needed a slight provocation to exhibit their true colours.

As Jesus once said, “Scratch any leftie and underneath you will find a racist bigot, with a small dong.”
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April 24, 2006 2:47pm
Andrew Bannister

My point is that they probably haven’t thought about their political views and beliefs too much. That doesn’t make them left. From those comments there is very little evidence that they are anti-war, anti-capitalist, pro-choice, anti-christian, socialist, gaia-loving global warming alarmists. All I can get from those comments is that they are foul-mouthed racist angry hatemongers. I don’t think that is synonymous with the left (yes, I know, you prob think it is synonymous with the left, but that is disingenuous).

I don’t think it would be fair to say that the KKK represent the right, even if they claim to be right leaning. They are mentals, and that is all there is to it.

Reasonable people don’t say the sorts of things that were said to MM.
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April 24, 2006 3:55pm
Kimble

“From those comments there is very little evidence that they are anti-war, anti-capitalist, pro-choice, anti-christian, socialist, gaia-loving global warming alarmists.”

Not from the comments, but why did they send those emails in the first place? Because MM was doing something against some anti-war people. Therefore they must be anti-war as well. The ANGRY anti-war people are often those other things as well. Not always, but often.
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Andrew Bannister

Kimble, that may be true, although another possibility is that they are anti-Asian, and that they have used the anti-war platform to target her race. It is not uncommon for some groups to temporarily align themselves with another group, for their own agenda, even if their views are generally incompatible. National Maori Party for example!
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It is possible Andrew but not likely. For starters they refer to her actions. An unapologetic racist wouldnt even have to bother, her genetics would be enough.
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